Where do I come from? Part 2

Back to the story, away we go.

Now right before level 70 I joined a small guild that raided mainly Karazan and if enough people were online we would take a shot at Gruul's Lair.  I was not with my druid and rouge friend yet because they were already working on Tier 5 content and trying to break into Tier 6 and I was still thinking I was hot shit in my 3 epics and blues.  Once I first stepped into Kara for the first time, holy hell I was hooked.  I am not only a sucker for a fun game, but I am also a giant lore junkie.  The epicness behind the story of Karazan made me drool and want that much more, especially with the interaction with NPCs that I was familiar with from Warcraft3.  When our guild was unable to crack into Serpentshrine Cavern due to a lack of bodies the guild fell apart and I eventually found myself at home with Nethergard Watch.  I will be honest, at the time I was a terrible warlock, not only with my gear but also my ability to work with my class mechanics, but because I knew this druid named Shadrilin and gnome rouge Melbu in real life, my app was accepted because at the very least I could be "Moar dots!" and we could see if I could hack it.

My "audition raid" was a quick Karazan run with various old members of the guild to see if I would be able to fit in with the group dynamic that NGW currently had, and needless to say I was a bit nervous but fit in fairly well with people who I thought I was only playing a game with, but would eventually become good friends with.  My biggest memory of that whole raid was when I was asked to watch a certain video of an adult nature to see if I could handle the crass humor and I couldn't stop laughing.

I slowly worked my way through the progression content at the time by taking spots that they couldn't fill with anyone else and eventually earned a full time raider spot, even though my official app period lasted six months because I was poor and could not afford to enchant my weapon with the best enchant in the game.  I kept learning the finer points of warlock things from my friend in game friend Carthion, who knew enough to get me started but back then it was bind your keyboard to shadowbolt and smash your face on the keyboard.  I eventually began reading and doing my work to become the best I could be, and it showed in my performance as well as suggestions involved with boss encounters and ngwlock, the most epic private channel in guild(ask anyone who was allowed in it).

Over the summer of 2008 we pushed our way through Black Temple and Archimonde of Mount Hyjal as best as a casual raiding guild could and by the end of the summer we were working on the last boss of BT, Illidan.  After all the hard work I was doing, I finally was able to reap the rewards by being chosen to be the warlock tank, partially because I was the only warlock who was around enough but not the point(haha).  This was quite possibly my favorite point in my WoW career, mainly because my friend Shadrilin was not able to actually tank him after working his ass off the whole expansion because he was the only one who cared to build a fire resit set, something needed by two off-tanks.  I just like being able to literally poke the bear by saying that I was able to tank Illidan and he couldn't, but it is OK, he tanked the Lich King so he stopped his bitching.

As the expansion winded down Sunwell opened up and we were interested to step in there and see what we could do, and were proud of what we did because that is some of the most difficult content in the game ever.  At the very end of The Burning Crusade, Nethergard Watch ended 5th highest on the progression chart for Burning Blade, and before we could even blink we were sent to Northrend to stop the Scourge and end the Lich King.